Archive | December 2013

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for Eastern Will County News. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 35,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 13 sold-out performances for […]

by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Dec. 30, 2013 A 29-year-old Peotone man is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 18 in connection with an Aug. 3, 2012 drunk-driving crash near the Will County Fairgrounds that seriously injured a Manhattan teen. Fidencio Castillo III of the 500 block of Hauert Street pleaded guilty Dec. 19 to aggravated DUI, […]

by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Dec. 26, 2013 Nick Garcia’s training as a Marine served him well during his recent trip to Washington, Ill. Garcia, who notches his 10th year as a Crete police officer in January, credits advice from Police Chief James Paoletti and the approach he learned in the Marines. “We were always adapting […]

by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Dec. 24, 2013 After more than six months of negotiations, the union representing Crete police officers and the village have agreed to use arbitration to end the deadlock on two issues, according to Village Trustee Mark Wiater. Speaking at Monday’s village board meeting, Wiater said the Metropolitan Alliance of Police and […]

by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Dec. 23, 2013 A special prosecutor has added a charge of intimidation to Monee resident Donald P. Walsh’s charges of residential burglary and aggravated domestic battery. Walsh, 30, a Frankfort police officer, was taken into custody Wednesday during his bench trial in Will County Circuit court. The new charge alleges he […]

by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Dec. 13, 2013 Crete Police Chief Jim Paoletti says the newest addition to the department has been familiarizing himself with the village, as well as the department’s record-keeping procedures and computer system prior to attending the Police Training Institute in Champaign in January. Anthony F. “Tony” LaRocco, most recently a community […]